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GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH A.P.STATE COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION ::GUNTUR

A P E A M C E T – 2 0 1 8 ( A D M I S S I O N S ) W E B B A S E D C O U N S E L L I N G

F O R A D M I S S I O N I N T O E N G I N E E R I N G & P H A R M A C Y

I N S T R U C T I O N S TO C AN D I D AT E S

Who are eligible?:

Shall be qualified in APEAMCET-2018 examination and obtained a rank

Shall have qualified in 10+2 or its equivalent examination. OC candidates shall have obtained a minimum of 45% marks [44.5% and above] in group subjects. Reserved category candidates [BC/SC/ST] shall have obtained 40% marks [39.5% and above] in group subjects.

Shall have completed 16 years of age as on 31-12-2018

Payment of processing fee:

OC/BC candidates need to pay a processing fee of Rs.1200/- while for SC/ST candidates the processing fee is Rs.600/-

For payment of processing fee, use a computer facility available at home/internet café having Internet Explorer 9.0 or above browser is required. The amount can be paid through a debit card/ credit card/net banking.

Log on to https://apeamcet.nic.in. Click on Processing fee payment online link.

Enter your hallticket number, rank and displayed capcha code and click on Pay Fee Online

You will be directed to payment gateway. Select Credit card / Debit card / Net banking option through which you want to pay the processing fee and enter your bank account or card credentials and execute the payment by entering the OTP received to your mobile.

After a successful transaction, an SMS is sent to the mobile.

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Note down the reference number for future reference or take a print out of the fee payment receipt by click on Print. THIS YEAR THE VERIFICATION OF CERTIFICATES IS TAKEN UP BY OBTAINING THE DATA THROUGH WEB SERVICES FROM VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. DATA OF MOST OF THE CANDIDATES IS VERIFIED WHILE FOR A FEW, THE DATA IS INCOMPLETE. FOR CANDIDATES WHOSE CERTIFICATES ARE VERIFIED IN ALL RESPECTS WILL RECEIVE THE REGISTRATION NUMBER AND LOGIN ID TO THE REGISTERED MOBILE IMMEDIATELY. SUCH CANDIDATES NEED NOT GO TO HLCs FOR CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION AND CAN GENERATE PASSWORD AND CAN PROCEED FOR OPTION ENTRY AS PER SCHEDULE. FOR DESCRIPTION OF VARIOUS ACTIVITIES FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BELOW FROM STAGE 3 ONWARDS. FOR CANDIDATES WHERE THE CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION IS INCOMPLETE, THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY REGISTRATION NUMBER OR LOGIN ID. SUCH CANDIDATES SHALL ATTEND HLC WITH THEIR CERTIFICATES FOR VERIFICATION. AN SMS ALSO WILL BE SENT TO SUCH CANDIDATES TO ATTEND HLC FOR VERIFICATION OF THEIR CERTIFICATES. FOR DESCRIPTION OF VARIOUS ACTIVITIES FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BELOW FROM STAGE 1 ONWARDS.

Every Candidate attending for Certificate Verification at Help-line Centre is requested to follow the stages as indicated below:

STAGE 1: ACTIVITY AT HLC

Wait for the announcement from authorities of Help Line Centres for Registration.

After announcement, hand over the rank card to officer at entrance.

Wait for your turn in the registration hall. Show the proof of payment of processing fee either SMS received or printed fee receipt.

Collect the Registration-Cum-Verification form from computer operator at Registration counter and verify whether your mobile number is printed correctly or not.

Enter details i.e. hall ticket number, rank etc. in the Register and append your signature.

Go back and wait in the registration hall for announcement.

After announcement by the officer at Registration counter, report at Verification counter for certificate verification.

STAGE 2: Verification of Certificates:

Verify the details printed on Registration-Cum-Verification form for local area, sex, Minority, category, Special Reservation category, date of birth, Mobile Number, Fee Reimbursement Eligibility etc. for correctness.

If there is any mistake, report to verification officer for correction.

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If you belong to SC/ST/BC Category, report to Caste Verification officer and submit the original Caste Certificate for verification and clearance. After Caste verification report to one of the Certificate verification officers.

If you belong to Open Competition (OC) Category, directly report to Certificate verification officer.

The Officers will verify all your original certificates like Rank Card, Hall ticket, Marks memo, Study certificate, income certificate etc.

A Print out of Receipt of certificates will be given to you and if you find any discrepancy, report to the Chief Verification Officer for correction. Append your signature after verifying the data.

Collect Manual option form and retain with you and then leave the Counseling Hall. You are advised to download the list of colleges and tuition fee details from the

web site https://apeamcet.nic.in

STAGE 3: Preparatory work to be made by you at home for exercising options:

Exercising options means you have to select college and courses you wish to join and arrange them in the order of priority.

Go through the College profile, availability of courses, duration of the course, prospects (job/academic opportunities) after studying a particular course. Discuss and decide on your interest on a particular course, distance from your place, availability of hostel, your family background, financial ability to move away from your place. Arrive at a list of as many numbers of possible options on a paper.

Also, consult your parents/friends on the selection of courses and Colleges you wish to join.

Take the Manual option form fill in the district code, College code and course code you wish to join in the order of preference against the option number.

Allotment of seats will be done based on Rank, Local Area, Gender, reservation category etc., in the order of preference you have chosen.

MANUAL OPTION FORM

OPTION NUMBER DISTRICT CODE COLLEGE CODE COURSE CODE

1 EG JNTK CSE

2 CTR SVUC ECE

3 VZM JNTV MEC

4 VSP AUCE CIV

5 ATP JNTA CHE

Allotment will be made as per your choice of the option numbers depending upon the number of vacancies available in a College and in a course for your sex, local area, and category. If vacancy is not available in Option.No.1, Option.No.2 will be considered for allotment, if vacancy is also not available in Option. No.2, Option.No.3 will be considered for allotment and so on. The allotment will not proceed to the next rank candidate till the list of your options is completely searched for availability of a seat. HENCE, CANDIDATES ARE ADVISED TO ENTER MORE NUMBER OF OPTIONS TO AVOID THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF NOT SECURING A SEAT.

It is not necessary to give options in a sequence all the courses in a particular college.

Candidates can enter any number of options of any College in any order of his choice.

Candidate is advised not to enter options for which he is not interested to join.

You may refer to data corresponding to Last ranks of previous year available in https://apeamcet.nic.in in selecting your options, which is only indicative

Seat allotment process and display of options depend on the accuracy of the data. Ensure for correctness of the data in the fields: Local Area, Sex, Minority, Category (BC/SC/ST), Special reservation category (PH/CAP/NCC/Sports), Fee reimbursement eligibility (Yes/No), Eligible/Not eligible (You are also jointly responsible for ensuring the Correctness of data. No request for alteration of data will be allowed after the time for exercising options is over).

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For entering options on computer screen, filled-in manual option form is essential. It will save your time and minimize your chance of making mistake in option entry on web.

STAGE 4: Procedure to be followed for exercising options on web/Internet:

You can enter the options from home or from any internet café or from any Help Line Center with the help of your filled- in manual option form.

You must have already completed certificate verification(Stage 1 and Stage 2).

Steps to be followed for entering the options on web:

1. Entering the URL through internet 2. Generation of password 3. Option entry 4. Log out

STEP 1: Entering the URL through internet

Double click on (Internet Explorer).

Make sure that the computer which you are using contains windows 7 operating system Internet Explorer Version 9.0 or above. It is possible to enter options only from such systems having above versions. It is not possible to enter options on Net scape navigator, Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Please enter URL or Website address: https://apeamcet.nic.in or as indicated in the notification.

You will find home page as shown below containing the links regarding the information such as counseling procedure, list of courses, list of help line centers, college profile, etc..

STEP 2: Candidate Registration and Password generation

FOR CANDIDATES WHOSE CERTIFICATES ARE VERIFIED IN ALL RESPECTS WILL RECEIVE THE REGISTRATION NUMBER THROUGH SMS TO THE REGISTERED MOBILE IMMEDIATELY. SUCH CANDIDATES NEED NOT GO TO HLCs FOR CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION AND CAN GENERATE PASSWORD AND CAN PROCEED FOR OPTION ENTRY AS PER SCHEDULE.

Importance of Password:

Password is important and shall be held confidentially. It is as important as the PIN of ATM card.

Do not reveal it to anybody as it might enable modification/tampering of data.

Password is essential for Candidates Login, Entry of options, Change of options, saving and deletion of options and for printing of allotment order.

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Click on “Candidates Registration” to generate the password. Enter the details Registration Number, Hall Ticket number , Rank, Date of birth [DD/MM/YYYY format] as printed on your Receipt of Certificate given to you after Certificate Verification.

Click on “Generate Password” button. The following screen appears.

Candidates whose data is verified will get a display of their data and they

need to confirm its correctness by clicking at the check box and proceed to

generate their password. If the candidate disagrees with the data,

he/she shall approach the HLC for correction by producing a valid

certificates as a proof and then only he/she shall generate the

password.

In the “Password” box enter the ‘password’ (having a minimum of 8 characters length and maximum of 10 with at least one Numeral/Character containing a combination of

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upper and lower case letters and numerals, for example EamCet12, kriShna123, 98765432Hh etc.)

Re-enter the same password at “Re-enter password” box.

Enter the mobile number that was provided at the time of certificate verification. In case you forget the password mobile number is compulsory to communicate the changed password.

Click on “Save Password” to save the password.

Click on “Log Out”. With this candidate’s registration is completed and you will come back to Home page.

Sometimes due problem in compatibility settings of the browser, candidate may face the

problem in generating the password. This can be noticed by “password input box getting

highlighted in RED colour” or “enter 10 or fewer characters in the password box”

message. In such case, candidate is required to change the browser settings by

following the procedure prescribed therein.

You can change your password as well as reset the password (in case forgotten)

through Candidates login as explained in the following step.

Follow the link Forgot your password in candidate login and create new password. New password will be sent to registered mobile through SMS.

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STEP 3: Option Entry

Note: You are advised not to start entering options directly on the web without preparatory work

in the manual option form at home, as you may commit mistakes.

After completing the candidates registration and generation of password, click on Candidates Login for exercising the options. The following screen appears. Login ID is a secret number that will be communicated to your registered mobile by SMS well in advance of your option entry. In case you have not received your login ID or have forgotten it, you are

advised to send an SMS from your registered mobile to 8790499899 in the format

APEAMCET<space>01<space>hallticket number after

generating your password as explained in previous step. Example: APEAMCET 01 43632401.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and are responsible for any harm resulting from your disclosure, or authorization of the disclosure of your password or from any person’s use of your password to gain access to your Login ID. You will be solely responsible and liable for any activity that occurs under your Login ID.

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To enter your option entry screen, enter in Login ID[communicated to your registered mobile by SMS],Hall Ticket No.,Password and Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY) and click on Sign In. The following screen appears.

In case you need any explanation about different Menu items of the Option Entry form click on “Help Screen”. Read the explanation about various menu items, and then click the button “Click here to Enter Options”, it displays the screen with various districts along with check boxes.

To make your options more secure, a One-Time Password (OTP) will be sent to your registered

mobile as soon as you entered this page after candidate’s login.

Enter the OTP in the text box provided.

Read the Declaration and click on Check Box √ to confirm the same.

Click on Click here for option entry. Click on “Help Screen” will display the screen providing explanation about different Menu items present in the option entry form.

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Select one or more districts to display the Colleges in those districts.

Click on ‘Display Option Entry form’ displays the screen for exercising the options.

If for certain technical reasons if a message appears “Error in sending OTP to your mobile”

above the OTP entry box OR if OTP has been sent to your mobile but is not delivered, wait for 5

minutes and click on “CLICK HERE” to get a new OTP to your mobile.

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In the Screen different colours are used for display of University Colleges, Girl Colleges, and Minority institutions etc

Enter your EAMCET Hall ticket No. in the box provided.

By looking at already filled manual option form, enter the option numbers in the Boxes on the Screen against the College and course in which you are interested to join as shown above. WHILE FILLING THE OPTION FORM ‘Click on Save Options’ AT REGULAR INTERVALS.

You can change your password if you wish so by using Change password Menu Button.

Click on View and Print button helps you to see the saved options and take a print out of the same.

STEP 4: Logout

AFTER COMPLETION OF Option entry click on “Logout”, IT DISPLAYS AN ALERT MESSAGE WITH three BUTTONS “Save and Logout”, “Confirm Logout” and ‘Cancel Logout’.

Click on ‘Cancel Logout’ retains the Options Entry Form for entry of some more options.

Click on “Save & Logout” button will save the options exercised up to that point of time and display the details of the options exercised.

Click on “Confirm Logout’ button will directly display the details of the options saved up to that instant.

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You are informed that, you can add, modify or delete the options any number of times within in stipulated time by repeating the above mentioned four steps. The options recorded in the server on the last day will be frozen. If you wish to change the frozen options once again, approach any one of help line centers on any one of the dates mentioned to modify your frozen options. This is the final opportunity and after this no further changes can be done. The Options recorded in the server on the last day will be taken for allotment of seats. You can take a printout of the options exercised.

After the option entry and Logout from the Option entry form, close the browser.

STAGE 5: Final Allotment of Seats

The allotments will be processed on the date mentioned in the notification based on merit, category, sex, Local area, special reservation category etc and will be placed in the web. You have to download the allotment order through “Candidate Login”.

STAGE 6: Payment of Fees, Reporting at College, Participation in subsequent phases of counseling

Separate instructions will be placed on the website after the allotment of seats. SALIENT POINTS TO RESOLVE TROUBLE SHOOTING:

PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED REASON_REMEDY

Processing fee amount deducted from account but transaction was not successful

Amount will be reverted back into your account after 3 working days

Registration number not received by SMS

Mobile number provided in the EAMCET application may be wrong-Approach Help Line Centre for change of mobile number with EAMCET Hallticket or Aadhar card as proof of identity.

Your certificate data is incomplete. An SMS indicating this will be sent to your mobile to attend certificate verification at HLC.

Unable to generate password Verify whether you have put tick mark in the check box having verified your data

Verify whether the password is 8-10 character length having combination of small , capital letters and numbers

Verify compatibility settings of your browser

Forgot password Use the link Forgot password in candidate login

Login ID not received Mobile number provided in the EAMCET application may be wrong-Approach Help Line Centre for change of mobile number with EAMCET Hallticket or Aadhar card as proof of identity.

You can obtain login ID by sending SMS from your

registered mobile to 8790499899 in the format

APEAMCET<space>01<space>hallticket number [ example APEAMCET 01 43632401 ]

after generating your password

OTP not received Wait for sometime as there might be delay in delivery of SMS by your service provider

Retry again to get OTP

Options not saved Check whether you have entered your hall ticket number in the box provided before save of options

Save options frequently to avoid session out of the web page

URL FOR OPTION ENTRY: https://apeamcet.nic.in

CONVENOR APEAMCET-2018 (ADMISSIONS)